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Third Congressman to step down this year over a sex scandal

NEW YORK (Reuters) –
Representative Anthony Weiner,
ensnared in a humiliating flap for
sending lewd photos of himself to
women online, resigned on Thursday,
ending a weeks-long scandal that
made his fellow Democrats cringe.
“I had hoped to be able to continue

the work that the citizens of my district had elected me to do – to fight for
the middle class and those struggling
to make it,” Weiner told reporters in
Brooklyn at the seniors’ center where
he first announced plans to run for
New York City Council 20 years ago.
“Unfortunately, the distraction that

I have created has made that impossible, so today I am announcing my resignation from Congress,” he said,
looking composed in contrast to 10
days ago when he tearfully admitted
to online dalliances.
Once seen as a rising star among
Democrats and widely expected to

run for New York mayor, Weiner
made his announcement alone, his
wife absent, at a raucous event.
Weiner, 46, represented parts of
New York City in the U.S. House of
Representatives since his election in
1998. He had established himself as a
See RESIGNATION, page 6

The iconic McConnell’s Fine Ice
Creams is for sale.
Owner Jim McCoy told The Daily
Sound on Thursday that he’s ready to sell
the company, but the delicious ice cream
isn’t going anywhere.
McCoy, 79, said he’s still committed
to preserving the McConnell’s brand
name and quality.
“Preserving the brand will be more
important in selecting who the buyer will
be than the money,” said McCoy, who
plans to start formally accepting offers
next week.
For more than six decades,
McConnell’s has been a Santa Barbara
institution. People can find its premium
brands in restaurants, convenience
stores, and supermarkets all over the
South Coast.
The company’s pints of premium flavors such as Vanilla Bean, Dutch
Chocolate and Turkish Coffee bear the
image of the Old Mission on their labels.
McCoy, who took over in 1963, is
credited with taking the company from a
small retail shop to a large local wholesaler.
Jimmy Young, McCoy’s stepson who
helped run the company for 10 years,
said locals concerned that new ownership may lead to a downgrade in quality
shouldn’t be worried.
Young said the company’s potential
investors won’t want to tamper with a
winning formula.
“The brand is established, the quality
is established,” Young said. “That’s what
these investors are looking for.”
Young said McConnell’s will still
have the same role in the Santa Barbara
community.
The parlor will be here, the factory
will be here, and a potential deal could
keep some members of the family on the
Board of Directors.
“If our family has any say,
McConnell’s will always be ‘Good ol’
McConnell’s,’” Young said.

Scott Burns, current General Manager,
agrees with Young’s sentiments. While
not giving names, Burns said some
prospective buyers are family-owned
businesses themselves, and none are conglomerates.
“It’s not like we’ve got Häagen-Dazs
coming in here and saying they want to
buy it,” Burns said.
Gordon F. McConnell founded
McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams in 1949
with a shop on the corner of State and
Mission streets. McConnell, a former
health food store worker, used his own
recipes for ice cream and started the
company’s “all natural” ingredients philosophy.
In 1963, after working at Shell Oil for
seven years, McCoy passed up a promo-

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tion to the New York office, not wanting
to take on corporate work hours.
“Subconsciously, I had decided that I
wanted my own business,” McCoy said.
When a friend mentioned the
McConnell’s shop, McCoy did some
projections, liked what he saw and
bought the shop. Under McCoy, the ice
cream store extended its hours, built a
factory, and expanded into the wholesale
market.
McCoy is keen for a new owner to
preserve the ice cream’s quality but, like
he himself did in 1963, also expand its
popularity onto an even bigger level.
“I see no reason why a local company
can’t be as successful or more successful
than Häagen-Dazs or Ben and Jerry’s
have been,” McCoy said.

The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Seven Csâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of preschool
HEALTH

What do books, basketballs and
bearded dragons have in common? They
happen to be a few of our boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; favorite
things about preschool. So much more
than just play dough and snack time,
preschool allows children to master
their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seven Cs.â&#x20AC;?

dence and selfesteem essential to
thriving in kindergarten and beyond.

new word that he learned in Spanish.
All preschool programs offer educational opportunities and some may even
provide early exposure to extracurricular activities such as art, music, cooking
and in some cases a second language.

CREATIVITY

CRITTERS AND CREEPY-CRAWLIES

I love coming
home from work to
be greeted by Andy.
He is always eager to
show me an art project, sing me a new
song or quiz me on a

Preschool encourages children to
develop a comfort level outside of their
own homes. Camaraderie with other
children and interactions with teachers
allows young children to evaluate and
express their own feelings. A year or

DR. DAN
BRENNAN

On the surface I married a man who
is nothing like my father.
Dad is a sports guy, through and
through. One of his most defining â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
and endearing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; characteristics is his
love of the games. Any games, really,
other than baseball, which he barely tolerated when my son played Little
League.
Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine looking
at him today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in fact, it makes for
great slapstick in my head â&#x20AC;&#x201D; my dad
was once a gymnast. He even wrote his
masters thesis on the Loop Dismount off
the Side Horse, though by then he had
bulked up considerably and was doing
more tackling than tumbling. He played
football at UCLA and it was a football
coaching job at Santa Barbara City
College that brought us to town. He was
also Athletic Director there for what felt
like decades. It seemed like he never
missed a game.

Dad is definitely
a sports guy. Even
in retirement, he
spends much of his
time obsessively
studying whateverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
on ESPN, checking
his Fantasy
Football league
updates, and rooting for the Lakers.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that Zak
LESLIE
is not athletic. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
DINABERG actually very graceful. He played
water polo for a while, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
understand why the other guys took it
so seriously. And now he swims masters
to keep in shape. But the athletic fields
were never his true calling. The only
blocking he did in high school was on
stage, and even then he was more motivated by access to cute senior girls than

When we visit the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eeewwâ&#x20AC;? exhibit
at the Santa Barbara Zoo, the boys are
able to tell me interesting facts about
tarantulas, Madagascar Hissing
Cockroaches and other interesting
insects, because they have been exposed
See BRENNAN, page 7

My two dads

SOUTH COASTING

he was by curtain calls. In college he
joined the Hasty Pudding Theatricals,
where his fishnet-clad high kicks took
him to off-off-Broadway and Bermuda.
If I ever want to make my dad
squirm, all I have to do is pull out the
Newsweek photo of my husband in
drag. Come to think of it, Zakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own
father wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t particularly comfortable
with that picture either.
Zak is long and lean, while my dad is
round and cuddly. My husband will
nurse a pint of Ben & Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heath Bar
Coffee Crunch for at least a week, if we
let him. He likes nothing better than to
morsel a bite or two out at a time as a
late night treat, smoothing out the ice
creamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edges so it looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh
from the factory.
As a kid I remember my dad also
liked to smooth out his ice cream, but
his style was different than Zakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. He
See DINABERG, page 5

The June Gloom will bring us another overcast day
after areas of morning drizzle. Daytime highs today
will only warm into the middle 60s across the South
Coast. A slight warm-up is expected this weekend as
we should see some sunshine return each of the next
few afternoons.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry
Brown on Thursday vetoed an “unrealistic” budget passed by
fellow Democrats in the state legislature and insisted on either
extending tax hikes or making deep spending cuts.
The hardball move drew immediate praise from financial
professionals and other observers, although Democrats who
pushed through the plan on Wednesday complained that Brown
wanted too much and needed to find Republican support himself or move on from his tax plan which has languished for
months.
“California is facing a fiscal crisis and very strong medicine
must be taken,” Brown said in a video address, later urging
Democrats to cut deeper and Republicans to allow a state vote
on the budget.
The veto would “shake up the system in a way that will get a
better result, however difficult the next few days may be,” the
Democrat Governor later told reporters in Los Angeles.
“We are deeply dismayed,” responded Senate President
Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat and an author of the vetoed budget. “What’s wrong with declaring partial victory?” he added in
a news conference, saying that Brown appeared uninterested in
a “Plan B” for closing a $10 billion budget hole.
Budget politics in California, the country’s largest municipal
bond issuer, are closely monitored on Wall Street, and federal
policy makers are watching the state for a fiscal disaster they
fear could spread.

Poll: Romney leads post-debate

BOSTON (Reuters) – Former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney
solidified his standing as the early front-runner in the race for
the 2012 Republican presidential nomination after Monday’s
seven-candidate debate, polls released Thursday showed.
A survey by Public Policy Polling showed Romney with 22
percent support among Republicans. Representative Michele
Bachmann of Minnesota, new to the field and seen as a strong
performer in Monday’s debate, had 19 percent.
Businessman Herman Cain had 17 percent, and Sarah Palin,
still not an announced candidate, 15 percent.
A Rasmussen Reports poll showed Romney at 33 percent
support in a survey of 1,000 voters taken on Monday night after
the debate.
Romney has consistently polled as the best, or even the only,
Republican currently in the race with a chance to beat Obama in
the November 2012 general election.
PPP surveyed voters from Jun 9 to 12. Their poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. The
Rasmussen poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The Goleta Valley Community Orchestra will throw a
free community concert at 7 p.m. tonight at the Wake
Center, 300 N. Turnpike Road in Goleta.
Sponsored through Santa Barbara City College Adult
Education, the orchestra, conducted by Laurel Fryer, will
provide the performance for free.
Organizers say families and children are invited to
attend and learn about Orchestra and Classical music.

Santa Barbara’s Senior Planning
Services released Thursday a list of
Father’s Day gifts suited to today’s senior citizens, the organization said.
More seniors are “growing old with
technology,” according to the nonprofit.
“While many occasions, spending
time together with senior loved ones is a
time to put away the distractions of cell
phones and video games,” said Suzanne
McNeely, president and founder of
Senior Planning Services in a news
release. “We do see in our home caregiving settings a very human benefit when

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– Daily Sound Staff Report

items also help bring families closer
together – when our youngest and eldest
family members have a love of gadgets
in common.”
This year, Senior Planning Services
recommends:
• An e-book reader: either Amazon’s
Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s Nook (starting from $139)
• Kandle LED Book Light for the
Amazon Kindle (about $18.95)
• BookBuddy Book and Laptop
Holder, from Ventura company Amanda
Crawford Designs ($34.95)

My wife (of two years) tells me she
is going to do something and then doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it. She always has a valid excuse
but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting old. I am thinking that
when she says she will, she already
knows she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and it is just easier for
her to operate like this. I want her to
either follow through with what she
says or not say it. I have repeatedly
asked her this and it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working.
Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next?
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; K.T., Santa Barbara
Dear K.T.,

If I had a dime â&#x20AC;Ś no, make that a
dollar for inflation â&#x20AC;Ś for every
â&#x20AC;&#x153;promiseâ&#x20AC;? I have ever heard I could
close up shop, buy a 50-foot yacht and
sail far away to a land where people
actually keep the promises they make. I
know of this land from a secret and
dusty old book, which said that this
place is hard to find and extremely
small since not many people live there.
Is this lack of honor (which is what
breaking promises come down to) growing along with the national debt, and for
all the same reasons? Are we so lacking
as a civilization that we see no value in

DINABERG

bought gallons rather than pints, and
instead of a bite or two each night; dad
would eat all except a bite or two in one
sitting. Then, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d smooth the miniscule
remnants up into the plastic window of
the lid, so that it looked like an entire
gallon of ice cream remained untouched
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until you picked it up and it was
light as air. Truth be told, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never
been sure if he did this to hide the evidence that he ate all the ice cream, or
because he was too lazy to throw the
container away.

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keeping our word?
Once upon a time
breaking bread with
someone meant
something, so did a
handshake in
America and a kiss
on the cheek in
France, but now â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
with the rules and
roles of humans
MISS KITTY confused at best â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
not much is as it
seems, and a promise made is just like
the national debt: never to be paid.
My not-so-adoring fans will no doubt
slay me for getting a bit off topic but as
Dell Griffith said in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Planes, Trains, and
Automobiles,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This really grinds my
gears!â&#x20AC;? Is it really so hard to do what
you say and mean what you do?
Apparently so, since our news is filled
with sex, tawdry texts and the lies about
it all. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t people understand that for
every action there is an opposite reaction and that we do not live in bubbles (even in Santa Barbara)? Even in
our coastal cone-of-silence, â&#x20AC;&#x153;no man is
an islandâ&#x20AC;? has more layers than an
organic brown onion.
K.T., I applaud your direct approach
and think you are on the right track. You
have established what you want and

have given an explicit directive: either
do what you say or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say it. What
you are missing is putting consequences
into place and the fact that we need a
partner to be accountable. Hello â&#x20AC;Ś
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the reasons we use the
word partner which the dictionary
defines as a person who shares or is
associated with another in some action
or endeavor; sharer; associate, instead of
a live-in you fill in the blank.
As far as figuring out why she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep her word, the work she needs
to do is ultimately for herself. It is reasonable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even loving â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you wish to
help her figure it out, and it will help
your relationship, but that is nothing
that is really on your must-do honey list.
Darling Boys and Girls, we are born
alone and will die alone (not being negative here, just telling it like it is). If we
are blessed to meet a few straight shooters as we travel our path we should consider ourselves lucky pups indeed and
treasure them above all else.
Have a naughty day!

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SOUTH COASTING

Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a plugger and a plodder who
plows his way through just about everything he does. If slow and steady wins
the race then my dad would win every
time. When he jogs it looks like walking
to the rest of us, and when he hurries, it
looks like a relaxed pace, but he gets
the job done eventually, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing if not consistent.
Zak, on the other hand, spends
ridiculous amounts of time trying to
think of the most efficient ways to do
just about everything. Consequently,
even if it appears to only take him five
minutes to complete a task, it may have
taken ridiculous amounts of time to do

just about anything.
They both drive me up the wall with
irritation, and make me laugh so hard I
cry.
On the surface they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more
different, but inside theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve both got
hearts as big as oceans. They both love
to play, have fun and be with their families. And my son and I both know that
deep inside where it counts weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got
the best two dads in the world.
Leslie wishes her dad, her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad
and all the dads Happy Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day.
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leading liberal voice in the House. He
easily won a seventh two-year term in
last November’s elections.
Just how big a distraction he had
become was evident at his news conference, where he was heckled repeatedly.
Weiner said of his future: “I got into
politics to help give voice to the many
who simply did not have one. Now I will
be looking for other ways to contribute
my talents.”
Elizabeth Viggiano, a 62-year-old senior at the center, said: “It’s heartbreaking.
He got caught with his pants down.”
Other locals such as Robert
Kolowaski, 56, had mixed feelings, calling his actions victimless. “He was very
feisty,” he said. “He stood up for the people.”
Weiner is the third member of
Congress this year to step down over a
sex scandal.

Weiner’s resignation marks a remarkable fall from grace for a politician who
in 1992 became New York’s youngestever City Council member, at age 27.
Weiner was known for his forceful
debating and acerbic wit. He had powerful friends, too. Weiner was married to
Huma Abedin, 35, an aide to U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a
ceremony officiated by former President
Bill Clinton.
His mentor was New York’s powerful
U.S. senator, Chuck Schumer, for whom
he had worked after graduating from college.
Under pressure from President Barack
Obama and both major political parties,
Weiner previously insisted he would seek
treatment and take a short leave of
absence from the House.
House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi said: “Congressman Weiner exercised poor judgment in his actions and
poor judgment in his reaction to the revelations. Today, he made the right judg-

ment in resigning.”
A senior Democratic congressional
aide said the final straw for Pelosi was on
June 8, when additional photos of Weiner
emerged.
The aide added that during a call last
Friday, Weiner urged Pelosi to reconsider
her call for him to resign, citing polls
showing his constituents wanted him to
stay. “Consider those rose petals to let
you go graciously,” Pelosi told him,
according to the aide.
After talking with his wife, who
returned from an overseas work trip with
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, Weiner
called Democratic leaders on Wednesday
to tell them he would resign, congressional aides said.
At his news conference, he apologized
to his wife and thanked her for standing
by him.
Democrats are expected to retain
Weiner’s House seat, which will be filled
in a special election.
Ironically, for someone who had successfully used social media such as
Twitter and Facebook to boost his political brand, Weiner’s fall was prompted
when he accidentally posted publicly via
Twitter a close-up of his bulging underpants.
Weiner denied for more than a week
that he sent a photo of himself in boxer
briefs to a woman in Seattle on May 28,
claiming his Twitter account had been
hacked. But on June 6, he admitted he
had lied and had inappropriate exchanges
with six women, some after he was married.

MORE LEWD PICTURES

Since then, more lewd pictures of
Weiner have surfaced, making him daily
fodder for tabloids and late-night comedians.
Weiner’s name, which also doubles as
American schoolboy slang for the word
penis, only made matters worse.
In another twist in the scandal on
Wednesday, a porn actress said he told
her to lie about their exchanges.
Democrats feared that Weiner had

Reuters photo

Representative Anthony Weiner announced
his resignation Thursday at a Brooklyn Senior
Center where he launched his bid for New
York City Council two decades ago. Weiner
has been involved in an ongoing scandal over
lewd photos of him shared over the Internet.

become a political liability to their efforts
to win back the House from Republicans
in next year’s elections. Weiner also had
been seen as a strong contender for New
York mayor in 2013.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
called Weiner’s fall “a lost opportunity”
that was “tragic.”
Obama ramped up pressure on Weiner
to resign on June 14, telling NBC News:
“He’s embarrassed his wife and his family. ... If it was me, I would resign.”
Weiner’s abrupt political fall followed
resignations from Congress earlier this
year by two Republicans, Chris Lee of
New York and John Ensign of Nevada,
both of whom are married.
Lee resigned from the House Feb. 9
after it was revealed he sent a shirtless
and flirtatious photo of himself to a
woman he met on Craigslist. Ensign
resigned from the Senate over his extramarital affair with a former campaign
aide.
Weiner’s wife was in the early stages
of pregnancy with the couple’s first child,
The New York Times reported last week.

to them at their school. Instead of being
scared of these creepy-crawly creatures, they
have developed a respect and eagerness to
learn more about them.

FROM PAGE 3

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Kids will be kids. Three-and-four-year-olds
are generally not so great at sharing. How
children approach conflict is shaped from an
early age and how their disputes are mediated
will have a lasting effect. An experienced preschool teacher can help children recognize
when they have a conflict and offer them the
tools to reach a peaceful resolution.
CLASSROOM PREPAREDNESS

Being â&#x20AC;&#x153;preparedâ&#x20AC;? for kindergarten involves
more than just learning letters and numbers.
It includes listening skills, patience, following
directions and showing respect for teachers
and fellow students.

While I am doing a kindergarten check-up
in the office, my job is to evaluate the social,
emotional and cognitive aptitude of my
patient. Most kids are ready to start, but at
times I have had to recommend that a child
wait a year before entering kindergarten. My
patients who have attended preschool are generally better prepared to succeed from day
one.
Parents often ask me if preschool is important. My answer is always an enthusiastic and
emphatic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes!â&#x20AC;? Ideally, kindergarten
enrollees will have had at least one year of
preschool so that they start kindergarten feeling comfortable in a classroom setting and
ready to build on their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seven Cs.â&#x20AC;?

Dr. Dan Brennan is a board-certified pediatrician and Santa Barbara native who enjoys
visiting Robbie, the bearded dragon, and the
other cool critters at Evergreen with his wife
and three boys. His column can be found in
the Daily Sound the first and third Fridays of
the month. Please contact him at 563-6211 or
visit www.SBPediatrics.com.

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